Overview

The CEDE aligns with several strategic initiatives at Penn State. ​ The center represents an unprecedented partnership between the Penn State College of Engineering (CoE), Applied Research Lab (ARL), and Materials Research Institute (MRI).​

Penn State has made several key commitments to CEDE:​

  • Financial investment to support Directed Energy (DE) fabrication and testing, 4-D ​material fabrication and characterization (4-D printing lab), and a high-performance​ computing deep learning cluster.​'
  • Strategic faculty hire in directed energy area; opportunities for graduate student fellowships. ​
  • Equipped a brand-new lab space in College of Engineering's Engineering Collaborative Research and Education (ECoRE) building to support DE research; ​shared facility with the Computational Electromagnetics and Antennas Research  Lab (CEARL) group. Additional resources provided by ARL and MRI partners.​

The faculty/researchers’ expertise cover a wide range of technical needs in DE topical areas including HPM, HEL, materials, 3-D printing, mechanics. The center has access to a  wide range of state-of-the-art facilities at Penn State (e.g., anechoic chambers, 3-D printing, and nano-fabrication labs).